Debbie Wasserman Schultz: GOP woman strategy ‘funny’

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz slammed Republicans on Thursday, laughing off the GOP’s attempt to advise candidates on how to run against female opponents.

“This is just so funny. I mean really, the Republicans still think that it’s about their words when it comes to whether or not women voters are going to support their candidates. It’s about their policies,” Wasserman Schultz said on MSNBC’s “Jansing & Co.”

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Wasserman Schultz’s criticism follows a POLITICO report that said the National Republican Congressional Committee has held “multiple sessions” to teach aides of incumbents proper messaging while campaigning against women opponents, with the aim of preventing another Todd Akin-level gaffe.

However, the DNC chairwoman listed policies including delaying the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, attempting to defund Planned Parenthood and preventing access to birth control as the GOP’s real problem, not their words.

“The Republicans have not been able to get the overwhelming support of women and Democrats have because we’re right on the issues that matter to women and they are wrong,” Wasserman Schultz said. “That’s the kind of education that they need to give to their candidates and until they do, they’re not going to get much support from women voters in this country.”